Trump began Saturday by slamming Cruz in a series of tweets
The camera then panned to Cruz, who says he can’t be Canadian because “Canadians are well liked”. “Nobody likes him anywhere once they get to know him”.
“You give a campaign contribution to Ted Cruz, you get whatever the hell you want”, he said, the boos beginning. Ted Cruz and Donald Trump, Reigniting the Promise of America, a Super PAC that supports Cruz, has enlisted a powerful new voice – Donald Trump.
New Yorkers are weighing in on Ted Cruz’s “New York values” remark at Thursday’s Republican presidential debate with their typical city bite. “In South Carolina when I was there, the people there certainly understand it”.
NY city lawmakers of all political stripes have bandied together to call out Cruz.
But attorney Chad Ruback, who handles appellate and Constitutional issues, says he doubts that will happen because typically, these kinds of cases take months, if not years to conclude.
Trump took another swing at Cruz over the senator’s comments that Trump shares “New York values” with Democratic leaders from NY.
Rather than try to attach the old “flip-flopper” label that has plagued politicians from John Kerry to Mitt Romney, they’ve come up with a new catch phrase: “New York values”.
In Concord on Monday afternoon Trump made a big promise to First in the Nation voters.
During an interview with George Stephanopoulos on last Sunday’s episode of This Week, Donald Trump said that he doesn’t think Cruz has a “great chance” of winning and added that he is a “nasty guy”, no one likes him, and that it is hard to make deals with a guy like him. “He’s a guy-and I think Trump’s right about this-he’s a guy whose views are often very, very malleable depending upon what he considers to be politically advantageous at the moment”, Christie continued.
In addition, Trump is also putting the blame on Cruz for supporting now-Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts back in 2005.
Trump also hit Cruz for criticizing him for embodying “New York values”, citing New Yorkers’ resilience after the September 11, 2001, attacks and the firefighters who came from across the United States to help. “I’d do the public a big favor”, Trump said on ABC’s “This Week” when host George Stephanopoulos asked if he’d consider filing a lawsuit.
Trump, who trails Cruz in some Iowa polls, described the Texas senator as a hypocrite for denouncing corporate cronyism but failing to report loans from Goldman Sachs and Citibank during his 2012 Senate race in the Lone Star State.
Cruz went on to respond to a serious of critical tweets earlier Saturday morning from Trump by questioning his judgment and temperament to be president.